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by Winterhawk99
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:36 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

Drasta enters the bathing area and wipes a tear from her eye calmly breathing. She sits in the bath and slips under the water to the floor. Akira another besshikime is right behind. She looks down in the tube and intakes a breath. She rushes in trying to pull Drasta out saying to herself, “What the ...
by Winterhawk99
Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:56 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

At about 12:30 Drasta notices a couple of samurai walk in and sit down on a bench. They have lunch plates of sushi and ginger. They begin talking, “Both the Shinto and Nakari lord were at the palace today.” “Word is they are going at each other’s throats. There will be war soon.” “It’s reginal unles...
by Winterhawk99
Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

Drasta is roused out of bed at 3am by Bunka, Haru and all the senior besshikime. Haru tells her to put on an 11 layered kimono and everyone brings her to the open-air palace garden. Around the edges of the garden are columns holding up hallway eaves. Between the pillars are statues of past heroes an...
by Winterhawk99
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:22 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

A messenger comes to Sei. He has travel papers for him along with official documents giving him limited authority to investigate the god of the lake and to speak with the weretigers. The papers also give Sei authority to pick people he needs from the palace to form a small party. He looks over the p...
by Winterhawk99
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:50 pm
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: Arelush's Journal
Replies: 8
Views: 1925

Re: Arelush's Journal

I have been here a few months now in this land called Amia. It is much more quiet than the mainland and other places I have travelled. I like this place. I do my Job, the one I am trained for: Watching over wilderness areas, count animals, hunting when need to so that the chain of life stays in bala...
by Winterhawk99
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:36 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

The next morning Sei is called to tea in a special tearoom at the palace. He arrives and with a deep bow says, “Hello there, Sirs and Madams.” Kyo is sitting there along with Bunka, Yoshie, Isao, Eri and Ogano. Kyo gets up silently and recognizes the huntsman then sits back down. Sei seats himself i...
by Winterhawk99
Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:57 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

The group heads back to the palace along the roadways. Sei doesn’t place any particular order but lags behind to keep a better eye on Hideo and the girl, trusting the rest of the party to know the way back home. It’s early at night sometime between 9 and 10pm. Sei picks up on a smell. It starts as s...
by Winterhawk99
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:28 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

The hunting party goes into the fields of the next Daimyo’s territory. Everyone releases their birds except for Eri. She tries but it won’t fly. Sei comments, “I think Eri’s bird might be a bit full. One too many snacks earlier…” Drasta looks over to Eri. Shes shaking her forearm, “Come on fly?” The...
by Winterhawk99
Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:05 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

On the appointed day the hunting party gathers at the gate. Sei is there first on his small horse less than a ½ hour before 6am. He is in his leather-and-quilted-silk hunting garb, with a tanto and hatchet at his hip. His bird is perched on his shoulder ready to lead the party out into the countrysi...
by Winterhawk99
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:26 am
Forum: PC Stories
Topic: The Kozakura Campaign
Replies: 14
Views: 442

Re: The Kozakura Campaign

During the first week of Drasta’s stay as a trainee, she works on familiarizing herself with just walking and proper etiquette of the palace. Haru is not so pleased with her progress. She decides that perhaps she needs to work Drasta a day in the regular duties of a Besshikime. During the day that S...